173199P.pdf   01/08/2019  United States  v.  George Patino
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-3199
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Colloton and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. In this prosecution for 
   distribution of human growth hormone and smuggling, the district court did 
   not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence that defendant had been 
   convicted in 1998 for possession of the drug with intent to distribute, as 
   well as certain statements he made at that time, as the evidence was 
   relevant to intent and knowledge and was not overly remote in time in 
   light of the fact that the two crimes were extremely similar; no error in 
   applying a sophisticated means enhancement under Guidelines Sec. 
   2T3.1(b)(1) based on the evidence at trial and the unobjected-to facts in 
   the PSR; the district court did not err in departing upward based on 
   defendant's understated criminal history, where defendant had five 
   unscored prior convictions, including two for international drug 
   distribution.